Saba Reads: my weekend reading project Marshall Garland

The Gruffalo  by Julia Donaldson.

Special guest narrator: Gail (aka, Baba)

The story of how a little mouse uses his wits to survive in a dog-eat-dog (so to speak) world.

This episode of Saba Reads is quite different from the previous ones.

This is a reading of Sitting QiGong Meditation from Bill Douglas's book, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Tai Chi and QiGong.

I used this as an exercise in my QiGong for Emotional Balance workshop.

Find a place where you won't be interrupted for about 20 minutes, sit back, relax, breath, and enjoy being with yourself.

1. Third Snowfall, Marilyn Hacker

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=34093

2. The New-England Boy's Song about Thanksgiving Day,  Lydia Maria Child  

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43942/the-new-england-boys-song-about-thanksgiving-day

also known as

Thanksgiving Day [“Over the river and through the wood”] 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42918/thanksgiving-day

3. A Country Boy in Winter, Sarah Orne Jewett 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47688/a-country-boy-in-winter

4. Address to A Child During A Boisterous Winter Evening, Dorothy Wordsworth 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51922/address-to-a-child-during-a-boisterous-winter-evening

5. A Visit from St. Nicholas, Clement Clarke Moore 

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43171/a-visit-from-st-nicholas

Longfellow:
1. Daylight And Moonlight
americanliterature.com/author/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/poem/daylight-and-moonlight
2. A Day Of Sunshine
americanliterature.com/author/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/poem/a-day-of-sunshine

Thoreau
3. The Inward Morning
americanliterature.com/author/henry-david-thoreau/poem/the-inward-morning

Hemingway
4. Oily Weather
americanliterature.com/author/ernest-hemingway/poem/oily-weather
5. Along with Youth
americanliterature.com/author/ernest-hemingway/poem/along-with-youth

Five more poems from Rudyard Kipling's "Just So" stories
1. How the Camel Got His Hump
2. 
How the Whale Got His Throat
3. The Elephant's Child
4. The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo
5. The Crab That Played with the Sea

Five poems from Kipling's "Just So" stories:
1. How the Leopard Got His Spots
2. The Beginning of the Armadilloes
3. The Cat That Walked by Himself
4. How the Rhinoceros got His Skin
5. The Butterfly That Stamped

If you want to read along, you'll find the poems at
https://americanliterature.com/author/rudyard-kipling/poem/just-so-stories-poems